Dopey 374: "Jersey" Jerry from Barstool Sports, growing up with a hardcore dealing dad, the Steelers ,selling pills, sex on opiates, infinite rehabs, suboxone, heroin, a crack love affair, recovery

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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This week on dopey! I am sick as f%ck in bed with 102.3 fever! We follow up the cokiest dopey ever with a great conversation with barstool sports own "Jersey Jerry"! Jerry tells his story of growing up with a gun and drug dealing dad, and details his journey from selling Percocets in high school, to robbing drug dealers for the ultimate score of his true love: Crack! Jerry also talks about the dozen plus rehabs he went to, living behind a Dunkin' Donuts until his mom finds him, and ultimately recovery! Plus!… we hear from the one and only Ray Brown! A DopeyCon update, a couple of wild emails including some true south of the border debauchery, and of course Alan! Jersey Jerry starts at around 20 minutes in. More About Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world's greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit [https://dopeypodcast.com/]. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction/id1077823917] and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction/id1077823917] company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction/id1077823917]. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction/id1077823917]. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction/id1077823917]. We shine a light on harm reduction [https://dopeypodcast.com/] and medication assisted treatment [https://dopeypodcast.com/]. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy [https://dopeypodcast.com/]!

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0:00.0	You feel like no one understands your reflection
0:07.0	When you feel like no one's home so alone, your addiction
0:15.0	Will if you deal as a left and put your headphones on and walk to the right
0:22.0	Because there's a nation out there, keep safe, keep you clean
0:28.0	Please, what's in my, so pay attention to the nation
0:33.0	You think they run a reminisce
0:37.0	To pay attention to the nation for a fallen brother's taught and grace
0:46.0	Flash the ears like a curse with the heardseer of us
0:50.0	Please smile on your face and laugh
0:52.0	So pay attention to the nation
0:56.0	It's time for the dopey podcast
1:00.0	Say strong, dopey nation, time for Dave and the dopey podcast
1:23.0	This episode of dopey is brought to you by our friends at Oro Recovery
1:28.0	They're located in sunny Southern California in Malibu, somewhere in Western Los Angeles
1:34.0	They were created by our friend Bob Forest and his friends Evan Jared and Bob
1:39.0	Their mission to create a treatment center that helps addicts and alcoholics by means of compassion and connection rather than control
1:47.0	The staff there has decades of experience in treating mental health problems including SMI, co-occurring disorders, all that stuff
1:57.0	They make sure that your stay and your detox is as comfortable as possible
2:02.0	I just heard from somebody who's at Oro right now who said this ad got her there and she's doing so much better and she's grateful
2:10.0	And they have amenities you wouldn't believe
2:13.0	Sound bath meditation, equine therapy, yoga, the potentially spiritually transformative sweat lodge
2:19.0	If you're fucked and you're willing to go to sunny Southern California, I highly suggest going to Oro
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